Watch How Merchandise Financial Planning Aligns Demand with Business Strategy
Video Summary
Digital Wave Technology’s AI-native Merchandise Financial Planning helps retailers create demand-driven strategies from category to location levels. Built on the AI-native ONE℠ Platform, the solution blends bottom-up, top-down, and middle-out methods in a single workspace, producing accurate plans quickly.
Teams manage both pre-season budgets and in-season open-to-buy in one place, while integrated alerts recommend inventory moves, markdowns, and re-buys to protect margin. Trend monitoring and version control keep everyone aligned, and continuous feeds into AI-powered Assortment Planning ensure execution stays on track.
The result is higher inventory turn, better profitability, and faster reactions to market shifts, all without manual data wrangling.
Key Takeaways
Bottom-up, top-down, and middle-out planning in one view
Pre-season and in-season plans update continuously
Demand alerts guide open-to-buy, markdowns, inventory shifts
Single data model unifies category-to-location targets
Boost turn and margin with automated insights
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Video Transcript
Building demand-driven Merchandise Financial Plans is key to achieving your goals.
Digital Wave’s AI-Powered Merchandise Financial Planning supports demand-driven strategies from category to location levels
Digital Wave’s end to end planning is part of our highly flexible, analytical, native AI ONE Platform that provides one data model, one workflow, and one version of the truth.
Automated bottom-up, top-down, and middle-out planning methods facilitate building demand-driven plans accurately and timely.
Supporting both pre-season and in-season plans, with continuous updates to AI-powered Assortment Planning. It consolidates various plan version - in one place, enabling trend monitoring and in-season changes.
The built-in workflow supports pre-season planning and in-season open-to-buy, with demand-driven alerts guiding inventory adjustments, markdowns and more.
Boost team efficiency, maximize inventory spend and turnover, and increase profit and sales with Digital Wave’s AI-powered Merchandise Financial Planning.